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Alleged gang boss is arrested

By Richard Marosi
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An alleged Baja California gang leader wanted by Mexican federal authorities has been arrested in Riverside, U.S. authorities said.

Jose Manuel Garibay Felix, 24, headed a Mexicali-based gang involved in drug trafficking, kidnapping and the murder of a Baja California state police officer in 2002, according to the complaint.

At a raid on his property in 2002, Mexican authorities discovered a weapons’ cache that included a .60-caliber rocket launcher, a machine gun, an AK47 and several other high-powered weapons.

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FBI agents arrested Garibay on Friday at a Department of Motor Vehicles office. He had applied for a drivers’ license in 2007, according to the complaint. U.S. authorities are coordinating his extradition to Mexico.

-- Rich Marosi

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Richard Marosi is a former Metro editor for the Los Angeles Times. He previously reported from the U.S.-Mexico border. Marosi was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2015 for his series on Mexican laborers and in 2013 for his stories on the fate of thousands of immigrants who were deported from the U.S. to Mexico in recent years. He has delved deeply into Mexico’s drug wars, producing a groundbreaking series on the Sinaloa cartel and sharing an Overseas Press Club Award in 2009. In the early 2000s, his corruption investigations in Southeast Los Angeles County contributed to the indictment or ouster of a dozen politicians and city officials. Marosi is a Southern California resident but remains loyal to the Giants, 49ers and Warriors of his native San Francisco Bay Area.

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